Sustainable Communities and Urban Housing

Montserrat Pareja-Eastaway is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Barcelona (UB), Spain, where she coordinates the Research Group on Creativity, Innovation and Urban Transformation (CRIT).Nessa Winston is Associate Professor in Social Policy at the School of Applied Social Science, University College Dublin, Ireland, where she is Director of Research.

• 1. Introduction 2. Ireland 3. Spain 4. Sweden 5. Norway 6. Denmark 7. The Netherlands 8. UK 9. Romania 10. Hungary 11. Switzerland 12. Germany 13. Conclusions

Sustainable Communities and Urban Housing persuaded me about the need for a three-pronged approach toward community sustainability, but the book demonstrated how hard it will be to achieve comprehensiveness. Many policy-makers will be tempted to focus exclusively on environmental issues, i.e. energy efficiency, but accepting an invitation toward a one-pronged strategy would be disastrous.David P. Varady, University of Cincinnati, International Journal of Housing Policy"The book is a good introduction to current issues in European housing and neighbourhood policy, and could serve as a text in a range of comparative courses. The chapters are beautifully edited and the standard of writing high—clear, jargon-free and readable. Some chapters include helpful black-and-white images to illustrate points about design, urban morphology, building main-tenance, etc."Kath Scanlon, London School of Economics